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3.2 Concentration point/ manhole unbundling
a)–g) N/A.
3.3 Cabinet unbundling
a) Available in a mandated basis (access to copper sub-loop).
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b) Sub-loop Unbundling (SLU) is possible and it is explicitly foreseen in PT‟s reference
unbundling offer (RUO), although there are no unbundled sub-loops to date. It is subject
to the same generic rules as LLU, but there may be a lack of detail as how SLU would
apply in practice, mainly concerning prices and co-location conditions. I.e., details
concerning co-location in street cabinets have not been determined (e.g. regarding space
availability inside or close to the street cabinet, etc.).
c) SLU is “included” in Market 4 (previously in Market 11).
d) Having analysed the Market 11 (in 2005), ANACOM imposed to PT the following
obligations: “Access to and use of specific resources networks” (e.g. grant access to local
loops and sub-loops and associated resources); “Transparency in the publication of
information, including reference offers” (e.g. publication of the RUO - ORALL); “Nondiscrimination
in the provision of access and interconnection”; “Separation of accounts for
specific activities”; “Price control and cost accounting” (e.g. set cost-oriented prices); and
“Financial Reporting”.
In 2005, it was imposed to PT, the SMP operator, the publication of the reference offer for
Local Loop Unbundling (including SLU). However, ORALL (the RUO) is available to
alternative operators since 2001.
e) To date, prices of LLU and associated resources have been regulated according to the
principle of cost orientation of prices. ANACOM has based its estimates of costs on: (a)
the analytical accounting system of PTC, audited annually; (b) the budgeted costs and the
current costs of resources consumed and activities needed for the provision of services;
and also with reference to practices in the European Union. In assessing prices
consideration is also given to the criteria of economic efficiency.
f) There are no unbundled sub-loops to date and no pricing is defined.
g) ANACOM considered, in its analysis of Market 4, that the maintenance of the obligation to
grant access to local loops and sub-loops and associated resources, including the “signal
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